School of Waters
School of Waters: Mediterranea 19 - Young Artists Biennale San Marino 2021
<p>/ ed. by Alessandro Castiglioni, Simone Frangi ; contr. by Denise Araouzou, Giulia Colletti, Panos Giannikopoulos, Giulia Gregnanin, Angeliki Tzortzakaki, Theodoulos Polyviou, Nicolas Vamvouklis. - Berlin : Archive books, 2021. - 299 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Includes biographies, bibliography</p><p></p>
ISBN: 978-3-948212-69-8
Mediterranea 19—School of Waters imagined a Biennial as a temporary school inspired by radical and experimental pedagogies and the way they challenge artistic, curatorial, and research formats. From this standpoint, School of Waters acted as a collective tool to defamiliarize stereotypes, especially those linked to the Eurocentric interpretation of the Mediterranean area. Mediterranea 19 redirected its attention to arguments against human exceptionalism and aimed to reconfigure the notion of learning through commoning knowledges present within non/human and human structures. School of Waters revolved around a critical rethinking of the material and symbolic agency of waters from a geopolitical and deep-ecology perspective. The desire to learn from waters reveals ways to un-train nationalisms and rediscover watery syncretism that constituted the Mediterranean as a complex platform of life forms and knowing processes. The curatorial team developed Mediterranea 19 as an ecology of practices, trickling through various spaces in resonance with the specificity of a small state such as the Republic of San Marino.
